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= june, july 2007 =
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Wilco, SkyBlueSky.
Very good web design: steve dekorte's blog
Have I mentioned how good Lipi's photos are?
interesting Trotskyists (ites?)
wp: Heterosis
Boulder gets its own craigslist
_why: hackety.org
In the land of Communist Trees
WareLogging: ER-4940 cash register manual (pdf)
VimEditor plugin: project (Eh.)
= may 2007 =
:The genius of the framers in making this provision is that it allows for infinite adjustment. Congress is free to extend at will the term of copyright. It last did so in 1998, and should do so again, as far as it can throw. Would it not be just and fair for those who try to extract a living from the uncertain arts of writing and composing to be freed from a form of confiscation not visited upon anyone else? The answer is obvious, and transcends even justice. No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.
A little historical perspective on the American Legion.
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
John Paul Jones with the Duhks
Groklaw: Microsoft and stupid patents
tnh: Grep that spool - MakingLight thread on Wikipedia with posts from AndrewPlotkin and CoryDoctorow. Plotkin's bit reminded me of wikipedia as source code / emergent trust structure. TNH's points, especially her dissection of the Kibo article, remind me of PaulGoodman in ''SpeakingAndLanguage''.
IdeaLogging: Fuck it: Fork Wikipedia already.
WareLogging: Cygwin on a USB stick or portable drive
dy: ''The Great War'' by MarcFerro
Building Impress and Powerpoint Slides with latex and Perl
= april 2007 =
wp: Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs
What really bothers the creationists
wp: Loyalty Day
AlbanyFreeSchool, BrooklynFreeSchool.
SteveAlbini: How Bands Get Screwed
wp: Cassowary
BillHicks: "By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing, kill yourself. No, this is not a joke: kill yourself ... I know what the marketing people are thinking now too: 'Oh. He's going for that anti-marketing dollar. That's a good market.' Oh man, I am not doing that, you fucking evil scumbags."
WareLogging: miniaim.net - when you need a windows AIM client fast.
PerlLanguage: makemaker made easy. This is easy?
AristotlePagaltzis: Reminiscing
mjd: Structured BASIC
debian: Etch is stable.
"if it can't evolve, it's probably useless"
ChrisClarke: what consumer electronics have to do with rape in the Congo
IdeaLogging: boostrapping: stolen rhymes.
PLEAC - Perl Cookbook equivalents in various languages.
JavaScript: sorttable - nice table sorting library.
File Synchronization with Unison
InteractiveFiction: There's an Inform 7 out for Linux. CommandLine tools only.
WareLogging: some Canon digital camera drivers.
FountainPens: Noodler's Ink, a test, dealers.
LanguageLog on Ann Coulter & the word 'faggot':
:By the way, a woman friend of mine in DC whose favorite color is lavender told me some really interesting things about Coulter, but I can't say a lot more. I really can't risk using the phrase "pussy-licking wildcat" in the same sentence as her name without having to go into rehab. Don't ask, I can't tell.
PerlMonks: chatterbox over telnet
PerlLanguage: Date::Manip, checking to see if a module is installed, Perl::Critic.
WareLogging: IMified - looks like terminal-like services over IM.
TrackingAcademics, TrackingWriters: inscape
= march 2007 =
A feed of RecentChanges.
Make basics, using PuTTY as a Cygwin shell
FirefoxExtension: Web Developer Extension
WareLogging, openrecord, their bookmarks.
PerlLanguage: DDJ: use perl 6 now
LanguageLog: The Dan Brown code:
:Brown's writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad. In some passages scarcely a word or phrase seems to have been carefully selected or compared with alternatives. I slogged through 454 pages of this syntactic swill, and it never gets much better. Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International, and airline magazines are thin, and two-month-old Hollywood drivel on a small screen hanging two seats in front of my row did not appeal, that's why. And why did I keep the book instead of dropping it into a Heathrow trash bin? Because it seemed to me to be such a fund of lessons in how not to write.
AssHattery: Excerpt from ''A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality''
LanguageLog: Learning to Read in Dulkw'ahke and a piece on the politicization of reading education.
Optimus Prime with a giant boom box
LanguageLog: David Brooks, Neuroendocrinologist
LanguageLog: Foolish Hobgoblins:
:Somewhat gloomily, I note that many writers have claimed that a major force in the spread of public schooling in modern times was the need for tractable and obedient workers, people who would conform to arbitrary rules and would perform tasks and follow procedures that didn't necessarily make sense to them. The official rhetoric of public schooling has focused instead on the spread of learning for its own sake and the teaching of useful skills, for the advancement of individuals -- for "getting ahead" in life -- but I think it would be hard to deny the interests of industry and business in the enterprise. Regulating grammar and usage and the mechanics of writing and insisting on consistency on even minute and arbitrary points fit right into this program. And then the ideas of regulation and consistency become part of the folk understanding of the world and how it works.
c2: More About The Database, Text Formatting Regular Expressions
Craig Ferguson talks about alcoholism
BashTricks: Daily history files for Bash. The cron job idea in the comments seems better to me; I have a tendency to bounce around the history with ctrl-r and bang completion.
= before that =
ESR Stole My Cultural Heritage
Lunging, Flailing, Mispunching
Haven't you heard / that I'm a QBasic nerd
WareLogging: The Library Lookup Project
WareLogging: EditGrid - Web-based spreadsheet app built on Catalyst & Gnumeric. Real-time shared editing, iframe inclusion in other pages, etc.
WareLogging, PerlLanguage: XLS Tools - commandline Excel stuff.
"In C++ it is, because C++ sucks"
Holy shit. I think it might be time to start acting like a cypherpunk again.
VisualizingThings: www.ggobi.org/
WareLogging, PerlLanguage: Text::Textile
A selection of poems by Barry Gibb
JoshRitter: "Now talkin' to God is Laurel begging Hardy for a gun."
LynnTownsendWhite, Jr.
djb: home page
dy: Danny Yee's blog, home site - book reviews, etc.
unix portability notes from djb
wp: Inland Empire - the new David Lynch film no one (including Lynch) is talking about
MozillaFirefox: single close tab button in Firefox 2
wp: Edible fish
d^2: "The bottom line here is that, as I say, the Iraq war isn't just a terrible mess, like British policy in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. It's a massive disaster, well on its way to becoming a disaster of world-historic proportions like Vietnam. The big and frightening headline numbers are just the logical numeric expression of that fact; if someone isn't proposing to argue with me on the fact that it's a total disaster then they can think what they like about the numbers."
automatic meaning discovery using google
To finish reading: A Non-Programmer's Apology
Naked Pumpkin Run, FAQ: Q. ''What is the naked pumpkin run?'' A. What does it sound like?
What was that line about an energetic mind in a vacuum of fact?
Layout Ultimate 2006 (GPLed, no less)
How long can the command line be?
"it only takes three commands to install gentoo"
WareLogging: Free BASIC compilers/interpreters, FreeBASIC.
tnh: God and I, on getting excommunicated from the LDS church
BookLogging: The True Intellectual System of the Universe: wherein all the reason and philosophy of atheism is confuted, and its impossibility demonstrated, with a treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality. by RalphCudworth, D.D.
WareLogging: gnu texmacs - slicker looking than LyX, anyway.
semi-coherent rants on markup & documents: * texnical documents and markup languages * S-exp vs XML, HTML, Latex (was: Why lisp is growing) (not quite batshit insane, but close, and mostly worth it for the XML-is-like-George-Bush segment) * the (much more interesting) context for the above
"A Rare Blend of Monster Raving Egomania and Utter Batshit Insanity"
wp: George Lakoff. It's Wikipedia, so who knows, but this sure does set off some alarms:
:Lakoff has also claimed that we should remain agnostic about whether math is somehow wrapped up with the very nature of the universe. Early in 2001 Lakoff told the AAAS, "Mathematics may or may not be out there in the world, but there's no way that we scientifically could possibly tell."
a review of ''Where Mathematics Comes From''
The world's shortest horror story
Machine. Unexpectedly, I�d invented a time: six-word sci-fi stories
"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary." - ReinholdNiebuhr
Why OpenPGP�s PKI is better than an X.509 PKI
WareLogging: SILC, per October 17 2006.
wp: SILC (protocol):
:SILC channels (groups) are protected by using symmetric channel keys. It is optionally possible to digitally sign all channels messages. ... When messages are secured with key material generated with SKE protocol or key material previously agreed on (for example, passphrases) SILC provides security even when SILC server may be compromised.
wp: "Maggie's Farm"
LaTeX: IEEEtrantools.sty
Tim Bray on Avebury
Longevity records of North American Birds, 10 longest lived.
wood synagogues of eastern europe
wp: Dream a little..., Talk:Copyright_wishlist.
generic names for softdrinks by US county.
WebComics: Thanks for looking after the kids.
WareLogging: wordnet: It'd be cool to build a wiki add on that'd automatically link in synonyms for you.
wp: Artifact
Directory of open access journals
The complete work of Charles Darwin
AssHattery: Senator Rick Santorum on how Iraq maps to Tolkien
reddit buttons - Actually, I'm not at all sure this is a good idea. But irony can be fun.
wp: Music referencing Bill Hicks
BoingBoing: Richard Nixon jumping
WareLogging: How do I use port forwarding?
WareLogging: stunnel - like ssh -F/-R except ssl-based. bind services to localhost, then secure and expose them via stunnel.
wp: Iceweasel
Stephen writes a Wordpress plugin
WareLogging: Gnutella Protocol Development
BookMaking: memoir class for latex
ng: bookslut interview: "I wish I had an origin story for you. When I was four, I was bitten by a radioactive myth."
:It always feels good to see Kissinger standing beside a U.S. President. It's kind of like watching Voltron gear up to physically assault the Statue of Liberty.
WareLogging: Veloeclipse - syntax highlighting & outlining for Velocity pages in Eclipse.
wp: Military Commissions Act of 2006
Hendricks Conference on Biology and Political Science
MattHern, ''FieldDay: Getting society out of school''
The glowing skull proliferates.
egomania itself: bad agile follow-up--stevey's in peak form
I have suddenly grown weary of people invoking the prisoner's dilemma to draw irrelevant sweeping conclusions.
WareLogging: surfraw (the rhetoric alone is worth the price of admission)
October 4 2006, wiki-blog fusion and fun with the unix filesystem
gmaps with a bunch of options exposed.
Google code search. I suddenly feel kind of bad for a couple of startups. But it does RegEx.
TheGoldenSmog have a newish album out. I wonder if it is any good.
ToRead: Shop Class as Soulcraft
WareLogging: cdb, CDB_File for Perl
FirefoxExtension: User Agent Switcher
ag: pure democracy
Via CrookedTimber, A Nazi Made of Bees
Fuck you, Dan Simmons.
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last edited August 6, 2007
